By Scott Jaschik. A one-line critique of the fashion choices of some white women leads to debate over journalism and cultural appropriation, and to threats made to Latina students. Read more...

By Scott Jaschik. Editors of The Crusader, the student newspaper at the College of the Holy Cross, are considering changing the name of the publication. The editors announced the reconsideration based on their concerns and those of faculty members that a publication of the Ku Klux Klan shares the name. Read more...

The current administration’s stream of visual foibles is just one example of why policy makers and others should question their assumptions about the value of studying art history, argues Nika Elder. Read more...

A scholarly framework and documentary format coincide in The Activists, writes Scott McLemee, which depicts the antiwar movement in this century’s first decade as an assemblage of collaborating but distinct groups. Read more...

Why was finding a college so difficult, asks Valerie Piro, even though all I needed was basic wheelchair access and a dorm room large enough for my physical therapy equipment. Read more...

There are many potential hazards when the public good is narrowly constrained to the interests of the nation-state, and academe is not immune from such isolationist tendencies, writes Jenny J. Lee. Read more...

The eminent New Yorker writer Joseph Mitchell profiled the greatest anthropologist in the world -- and his fans somehow forgot about it for decades. Scott McLemee reports from the scene of the excavation. Read more...

By substituting diversity and inclusion rhetoric for transformative efforts to promote equity and justice, colleges have avoided recognizable institutional change, contends Dafina-Lazarus Stewart. Read more...

Might the conviction of Graham Spanier send a warning signal, asks Karen Gross, or at least a warning reminder, through ivory towers across our nation. Read more...

David Galef describes, with tongue in cheek, the courses that today's students should take to be in the know. Read more...